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Poll Technica: Keyboard stylin’

This week's topic is pretty simply in concept, but it's a topic that at least a few users feel really strong about: what's your keyboard style? Here the options are clear: you either have a standard straight keyboard, or you have one of those split keyboards such as the MS Natural Keyboard. Or you have some newfangled other thingamabob. Personally, I can't type more than about 10 minutes on anything other than a Natural Keyboard. It was tough to make the switch, but I'm extremely pleased that I did. FWIW, in the world of straight keyboards, nothing causes me pain quicker than the smaller, iMac keyboards that they have around my campus. Can't stand them. Flame me all you want, I think they suck.

With regards to the last poll, you're all better stacked RAM-wise than I would have expected. The 512MB school was largest group, towering more than 2.4 times higher than the nearest competitor, the 256MB tribe. Curiously, the same number of people had more than 512MB of RAM (25%) as had 256MG of RAM or less (24%). It's a good thing to know that so few of you are trapped in a < 128MB world of pain and suffering.

Ken Fisher
Ken is the founder & Editor-in-Chief of Ars Technica. A veteran of the IT industry and a scholar of antiquity, Ken studies the emergence of intellectual property regimes and their effects on culture and innovation. Emailken@arstechnica.com//Twitter@kenfisher